ROSY POSIES
Now’s the time to plant bare-root roses so you can gather glorious bouquets this summer
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Add mycorrhizal fungi, such as Rootgrow, into the planting hole
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One of the most intoxicating roses is Mme Isaac Pereire with her heavily perfumed raspberry pink petals – a lush heirloom Bourbon rose which forms a vigorous shrub or can be trained as a short climber.
If you need an enthusiastic rambler to scramble up a tree, cover an ugly shed or garland a pergola, Paul’s Himalayan Musk has dainty sprays of fragrant pale pink flowers and will tolerate more shade than most.
For a well-behaved climber, include cottage garden favourite Cecile Brunner, which has prolific sprays of dainty pink fragrant flowers and good disease resistance.
Just Joey is a classic 1970s hybrid tea in mouth-watering apricot – fragrant, repeat flowering, and makes a gorgeous cut rose.
Another nostalgic favourite is Peace, with its generous yellow roses flushed with a delicate pink. It was developed by a
French horticulturist before the Second World
War. ■ Peter Beales Classic Roses is based in Attleborough, Norfolk, and has over 11,000 different varieties of the plant. The late Peter Beales particularly loved oldfashioned roses and saved many from the brink of extinction. Call 01953 454707 or visit classicroses.co.uk
■ David Austin needs no introduction but I’ll give him one – he’s the world-renowned rosarian who combines the best qualities of both old and new roses to create the English rose, full of fragrance, beauty and old-world charm, but with desirable modern qualities of health and repeat flowering. Call 01902 376300 or Credit: david austinroses.co.uk
Anticipating the invasion by Germany he sent cuttings of the rose to his friends in America, and after the fighting was over, it was head online and visit davidaustinroses.com
■ Harkness Roses is a Yorkshire-based nursery which has been growing roses since 1879 and is renowned for excellence in rose breeding. Responsible for Ena Harkness, for a time one of the most popular red roses, Harkness has a wide range of quality roses. Call 01462 420402 or email harkness@roses.co.uk
■ Fryer’s Roses has over 100 years’ experience of growing the flower and is responsible for award-winning varieties such as You’re Beautiful. Available at Fryer’s Garden Centre, Knutsford, Cheshire, or any of the Blue Diamond garden centres across the UK. Call 01565 755455.
given to each of the delegations at the inaugural meeting of the United Nations in 1945.
With the need for world peace as pressing now, this could also make a